What does "The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda—I wish that had been a success!" mean?

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"The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda—I wish that had been a success!", Johann Strauss II said

I don't understand what he said, and what he means to.


"The Devil take _____" is a somewhat archaic way of saying "I don't care about ____" - after all, the Devil can have it.

As for a Coda, it is the final portion of a piece of music - and in the case of the Blue Danube, the segment of which Strauss was proudest.


Judging from the idiom "The devil take the hindmost" I would say that the writer wasn't really that fond of the piece in general, but just the portion of it called the "coda".

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